Oksana update

It's been a rough week.  After Sunday's blowout she pooped on the potty a little bit on Monday and then held again.  There was NO WAY I was waiting 5 days and then loading her up with meds again only to have a Sunday blow out and miss church.  I decided by Wednesday that the game was up.  I gave her a suppository and she held against it.  Someone tell me how in the world you can do that?!  Then I loaded her up with miralax.  I was ready for the explosion on this morning but as luck (or more likely tons of prayer) should have it she slept in so I had to wake her up for school which didn't give her a chance to poop in her pull up before she got up.  She woke up and immediately pooped on the potty.....and then continued to do it over and over again all day long.  She is leaking a lot again which is fine with me as long as she is pooping on the potty.  I have no idea what changed and I have no idea how long this will last but for today I am so incredibly thankful for the day of rest from all of this.  There are a lot of people praying for this situation and I am sure that is a big part of the reason that I was given a day of reprieve.  Thank you God.

Now a funny story to go with this.  I don't have enough underwear to keep up with her and a friend had suggested that I use a panty liner so that when she leaks I only have to change out the panty liner and save the underwear.  So tonight I walk in the bathroom and show it to her and here is the conversation we had: 

Me:  Oksana these are things that you put in your underwear and it protects your underwear if there is anything that might mess them up. 
Oksana:  Like what?
Me:  Oh well, pee...you know.....if someone had trouble holding their pee in.....or poop....ummmm....or something like that.
Oksana:  Well why do you have them?
Me:  Oh I just had some in the bathroom, so OK, lets get going to dinner!

On an only slightly different subject, if any of you has a child with RAD I want to share a blog called The Attachment Challenge with you.  I was just introduced to the blogger today. She has adopted kids who come from trauma and she is now a therapeutic parenting coach.  She's also a little on the wacky side and very brutally honest which I quite like about her.  I am going to try this challenge. If you don't have a child with RAD you might read it and say "How horrible that a person has to be challenged to hug and interact with their child."  In fact you might even be tempted to say that in the comments.  I'm just going to tell you now that you can spare your fingers the waste of energy typing it out because it won't be published or acknowledged.   If you want to get a glimpse into life with the children that we often affectionately call RADishes feel free to read the comments.  This is not easy stuff when we are in the thick of it.